Ultra-Wideband, Short-Pulse Electromagnetics 6

Electromagnetic Theory.- Group Delay Description For Broadband Pulses.- Two-Dimensional Narrow-Waisted Gaussian Beam Analysis of Pulsed Propagation From Extended Planar One-Dimensional Aperture Field Distributions Through Planar Dielectric Layers.- Axial Scattering from Thin Cones.- An Observation Concerning the Entire Function in SEM Scattering.- Two Methods for Profile Reconstruction in Scattering Theory.- Object Impulse Response Evaluation for Ultra Wideband Application.- The Life and Times of a Sea Spike: A Study of Wideband Sea Clutter at High Range Resolutions and Very Low Grazing Angles.- A Full Wave Approach to Electromagnetic, Scattering by Nanostructures with Small and Large Scale Periodic and Random Rough Surfaces and Lateral Fluctuations in the Permittivity and Permeability.- Frame-Based Beam-Summation Algorithms for Ultra Wideband Radiation from Extended Apertures Part I: Formulations in the Multi-Frequency Domain.- Frame-Based Beam-Summation Algorithms for Ultra Wideband Radiation from Extended Apertures Part II: Time Domain Formulation.- Dispersive Media Propagation.- Pulse Centrovelocity: Asymptotic and FFT Results.- Reversible and Irreversible Processes in Dispersive/Dissipative Optical Media: Electro-Magnetic Free Energy and Heat Production.- Fast Time-Domain Integral Equation Approach for Wide-Band Pulse Propagation in Dispersive Media.- Effect of the Inversion Symmetry of Dispersion Relations on Four-Wave Interactions in Photonic Crystals.- A Finite-Difference-Time-Domain/Perfectly-Matched-Layer Algorithm Applied for Nonlinear Dispersive Media.- Focusing of Ultra-Wideband Composite X-Waves.- Multi-Resolution Homogenization (MRH) for Short Pulse Fields and for Fault Interrogation in complex Laminates.- Foilage Penetration Stripmap SAR Imaging using UWB Random Noise Waveform.- Time-Domain Computational Techniques.- Iterative Solution of Field Problems with a Varying Physical Parameter.- A New FDTD Solution Method Without a Marching-On-In-Time Scheme using Laguerre Polynomials.- Time-Domain Integral-Equation-Based Solver for Transient and Broadband Problems in Electromagnetics.- Efficient Mixed Finite Elements for Maxwell’s Equations in Time Domain.- Solution and Stability Analysis of a New Integral Equation for the Transient Scattering by a Flat, Rectangular Conducting Plate.- Antennas.- Reshaping the Aperture Fields in Impulse Radiating Antennas and Oscillator Reflector Antennas.- Optimization of Impulse Radiating Antennas.- Electromagnetic Lens Design.- Location and Orientation of Electrically Small Transmitting and Receiving Antenna Pairs with Common Linear Polarization and Beam Direction for Minimal Mutual Coupling.- The Role of Mutual Coupling in a 5:1 Bandwidth Stripline Notch Array.- UWB Antenna Characterization and Optimization Methodologies.- Optimized Ultra-Wideband Radiation of Dipole Antennas with Triangle Driving Pulses.- Analytical, Numerical, and Experimental Results for Wide-Angle Biconical Antennas.- Ultrawideband Transmitting Antennas, Arrays, and High-Power Radiation Sources.- Pulsed Power.- Recent Developments in Ultra-Wideband Sources and Antennas.- Design and Development of a High Voltage Coaxial Hydrogen Switch.- Progress in Development and Characterization of Photoconductively-Switched Stacked Blumlein Devices Producing High Power Nanosecond Pulses.- The Effects of Passivation Layers on the Response of Phtoconductive Switches for Ultra Wideband High Power Microwave Appliactions.- Nanosecond Pulsed Breakdown for Point-Plane Geometries at Moderate Voltage.- Design and Testing of a CompactSub-GW, Subnanosecond Pulser.- Resonance Pulse Compression as an Effective Method for Generation of UWB High Repetitive Microwave Pulses.- Information Extraction.- Excitation of Sub-Structure Resonances Using a T-Pulse.- Exploiting Early Time Response Using the Half Fourier Transform (HFT).- Detection of a Buried Object with Pulse-Compressed Wire Antennas.- Target Recognition Via Late Time Scattering.- Detection of Wires Using UWB Radar.- Comparison of Time, Frequency and Time-Frequency Analysis of Back-Scattered Echoes from Radar Targets Buried in Realistic Half-Spaces.- Detection of Targets Behind Walls Using Ultra Wide Band Short Pulse.- Radar Systems.- Integrated Digital UWB-Radar.- Vector Receiving Antenna for Ultrawideband Radar Polarimetry.- Very High Voltage Divider with Large Bandwidth.- An UWB Radar Based Stealthy ‘Lie Detector’.- Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) of Ultra Wideband (UWB) Short-Pulse Systems in Military Environments.- Design and Testing of a 1–3 GHz SFCW Ground Penetrating Radar.- High Resolution Imaging Using a SFCW GPR.- Radar Detection and Imaging of Buried Objects.- Author Index.